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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Poll: Recent Interest in Freemasonry By The Public

Please click this post to take a poll about recent public interest in Freemasonry.

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

POLL RESULTS: City/Rural Lodge

AUGUST POLL QUESTION: Do you regard your lodge as a "city" lodge or a "rural" lodge?

City lodge: 275 votes (60%)

Rural lodge: 181 votes (39%)

Total votes: 456

Saturday, August 06, 2011

POLL: Masonic Grand Lodge Magazine Content

Some interesting results from an online poll asking about the content of a state's grand lodge magazine. I won't post the state as it is not meant as a criticism of the current content or job that the editors are doing. But I think the results are worth noting for any grand lodge publication and what members would find most useful, informative or interesting.

If grand lodges are spending lots of money and editors lots of time creating these publications, it costs just as much and takes just as much time to put out a product members will actually read as one they'll toss after the walk in from the mailbox.

This also comes with the codicil that an editor can only print what is sent to him, and that if members are unhappy with the content of their grand lodge magazines, then start typing.

Answers are listed in descending order of votes cast, not in the order they were originally asked. Respondents could only vote for one answer in each question. 58 votes were cast.

1. What would you like to see MORE of in the Grand Lodge Magazine?

Ritual and symbolism education [34.48%]
How-to articles (lodge management,
building issues, membership retention) [27.59%]
Masonic history [13.79%]
Photos and notices of lodge activities [6.90%]
National and international Masonic news [6.90%]
Masonic book reviews [6.90%]
Interviews with grand officers [3.45%]
Charity news [0.00%]
Spiritual inspiration [0.00%]
Masonic Home stories [0.00%]

2. What would you like to see LESS of in the Grand lodge Magazine?

Interviews with grand officers [24.14%]
Photos and notices of lodge activities [20.69%]
Spiritual inspiration [17.24%]
National and international Masonic news [13.79%]
Masonic Home stories [13.79%]
Charity news [6.90%]
How-to articles (lodge management,
building issues, membership retention) [3.45%]
Ritual and symbolism education [0.00%]
Masonic history [0.00%]
Masonic book reviews [0.00%]

POLL RESULTS: Festive Boards

JULY POLL QUESTION: Has your lodge held a Table Lodge/Festive Board in the last 12 months?

RESULTS:

Yes - 327 VOTES (60%)

No - 157 VOTES (29%)

What is that? - 56 VOTES (10%)

Total votes: 540

POLL CLOSED

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

POLL RESULTS: Traveling Men

JUNE POLL QUESTION: Outside of your Mother Lodge, approximately how many lodges a year do you visit?

Results:
0 = 52 votes (7%)

1-4 = 293 votes (44%)

5-9 = 148 votes (22%)

10 or more = 165 votes (25%)

Total votes = 658
Poll closed

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Poll Results: Do dues cover your lodge's annual expenses?

April Poll Results: Do your lodge dues (minus grand lodge assessments) cover your lodge's annual expenses?
• Yes. 115 (36%)
• No, but we have other regular income (rent, investments, etc.). 102 (32%)
• No, we regularly run in the red. 75 (23%)
• I don't know. 26 (8%)
Total Votes: 318

Thursday, February 03, 2011

Poll Results: How Old Were You?

Certainly, the poll was partially skewed by the ages of Internet users and blog readers, but interesting results, nonetheless.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Poll Results: Is your lodge recycling a Past Master as the current Master of your lodge?

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Legendary brotherhood
With a mythic past
And a visionary future.

Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Modern Freemasons likewise use the tools, traditions and terminology of those Biblical stonemasons as allegories for building Temples in the hearts of men.

At its core, Freemasonry is simply an attempt to make the world a better place, one man at a time. For each man, it can become as simple or as complicated as he himself desires.

It's said that we are a secret society. We do indeed have secrets—secrets that each individual man has to discover for and about himself.

It's not for everybody. It never has been, and was never meant to be. That's the point.

Maybe it's for you.

Christopher L. Hodapp is the author of Freemasons For Dummies, the international, best-selling introduction to the Masonic fraternity; and Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C..

Prior to joining the Masons and becoming an author, Chris spent 23 years as a commercial filmmaker with Dean Crow Productions in Indianapolis.

Since 2009 he has been on the Board of the Masonic Library & Museum of Indiana, and currently serves as its President and Co-Director.

As a Freemason, Chris is a Past Master of Broad Ripple Lodge No. 643 and of Lodge Vitruvian No. 767 under the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana; he is a member of Indiana's Schofield Lodge 1818 U.D.; and of Internet Lodge No. 9659 in the Province of East Lancashire of the United Grand Lodge of England. Most recently, he served as the Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana for 2019-21.

In 2018 he was awarded the Caleb B. Smith Medal of Honor by the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana for his "distinguished service to Freemasonry in Indiana and worldwide."

Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medieval Knights Templar period recreation degree team in the York Rite, and he is an officer of the Indiana College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis. He belongs to numerous other Masonic appendant organizations.

Chris is a Fellow of the Philalethes Society. As a Masonic author, in 2012 he was named as Friar No. 101 in the Society of Blue Friars. Chris was also a Founding Fellow of The Masonic Society, and was the founding Editor in Chief of The Journal of The Masonic Society. He was the editor and a contributor in 2004-5 to "Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response to Dwight Smith" by the Knights of the North, a Masonic leadership think-tank focusing on modern lodge solutions. He has written for Indianapolis Monthly, Heredom, Masonic Magazine, Templar History, the Scottish Rite Journal, the Knight Templar Magazine, the Indiana Freemason , the Phylaxis, and numerous other publications.

His most recent Masonic book, Heritage Endures, was published in January 2018 as part of the 200th anniversary of Indiana's Grand Lodge.

Chris is also the co-author with his wife Alice VonKannon of The Templar Code For Dummies and Conspiracy Theories And Secret Societies For Dummies. Together they developed scripts for the History Channel program, Brad Meltzer's Decoded in 2010, and contributed material on conspiracies and secret societies for TruTV and the American Heroes Channel. They have both appeared on National Public Radio, the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the American Heroes Channel - most recently in the 2024 episode of America's Book of Secrets - The Freemason Factor for History and Prometheus Productions.

Chris and Alice reside in Indianapolis with their canine companions , Sophie the Flying Poodle and Maxwell, the Idiot Circus Doodle, who have them both answering to basic commands. They can frequently be found alarming the wildlife and dazzling the rustiks in their Airstream trailer as they crisscross the country. Appropriately, their newest books together are RVs and Campers For Dummies, released in June 2021; and RV Vacations For Dummies - 7th Edition, released in June 2023.

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